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Science Quotes by Charles Kettering
- There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur.…
- People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
- The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
- People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance…
- An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
- The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
- It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
- My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You…
- We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find…
- There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
- A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
- Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One…
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